"Statistics is the grammar of science." — Karl Pearson

"Statistics is the grammar of science."

— Karl Pearson

16 Quotes by Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how…
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but…
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the…
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does…
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has…
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit…
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies…
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers;…
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine…
That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.

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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people… — Margaret Atwood
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four… — Dave Brubeck
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific.… — Noam Chomsky
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and… — Louis Aragon
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds.… — Ivan Illich
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. — W. Somerset Maugham
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that… — Jacob Bronowski
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon… — Heinz Pagels
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell.… — Robert Orben

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